Arado Ar 234 B-2 Blitz, Udvar-Hazy Center

If you go to see the Enola Gay, don't walk past this one: it is the only Ar 234 known to survive. The Blitz was the world's first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, and its first combat sortie was a reconnaissance flight over the Normandy beachhead on 2 August 1944. This airframe…

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